What a dynamic QR code actually costs per month

Entry-plan prices for four QR code vendors, divided by the number of dynamic codes each plan includes — the per-code number none of them print on their pricing page.

Max Čelar·August 31, 2026·Pricing & cost

What’s new here: Cost per dynamic QR code per month, computed from four vendors' own published entry plans in one dated snapshot (2026-07-03) — a per-code figure none of them publish, plus a note on which vendors do not publish plan pricing at all.

Every QR code vendor advertises a monthly price. None of them advertise the number that decides what you will actually pay: the price of one dynamic QR code, per month.

That number is easy to compute and consistently unflattering, which is presumably why it is missing. Below it is, for four of the vendors we track, from a dated snapshot of their own pricing pages.

# How these numbers were collected

We run an automated snapshot of competitor pricing pages (the same job that keeps our comparison pages honest). It fetches each vendor’s public pricing page, extracts the visible text and every price-like token, and stores the result with a timestamp. No logins, no sales calls, no estimates — only what the page showed the public on the day it was fetched.

The snapshot below is from 3 July 2026. Prices move; the point of a dated snapshot is that you can check it against the live page and see whether it has. Every figure here is traceable to one of the four pricing pages linked at the bottom of this article.

Two limits worth stating up front, because they shape what can honestly be said:

• We only use what the page pairs together. Where a pricing page lists a price but does not state the dynamic-code allowance next to it, we leave the row blank rather than guess. Two of the four vendors below fall into that category.
• List prices only. Annual-billing discounts are shown where the page showed them. Negotiated, promotional and sales-led prices are invisible to a snapshot, by definition.

# The per-code numbers

The arithmetic is one division: plan price ÷ dynamic codes included.

The spread is not a rounding difference. At the entry tier, the most expensive option in this table costs twenty-five times more per code than the cheapest, for a redirect and a scan counter.

It gets less extreme higher up the ladder, because every vendor’s code allowance grows faster than its price:

Which is the real lesson of the table: the entry tier is where the price per code is set, and the entry tier is where nearly everyone buys. A two-code starter plan is not a starter plan. It is a plan you outgrow on the day you print a second poster.

# What the vendors do not publish

Two of the four vendors we snapshot could not be placed in the table at all, and that is a finding rather than a gap in the data.

Uniqode’s pricing page rendered the price tokens $6, $9, $49 and $2,000, but the page did not pair a dynamic-code allowance with any of them in the text a visitor sees. You cannot work out your cost per code from that page without signing up.

Flowcode’s pricing page is not a price list. On the day of the snapshot it was a demo-request funnel — “Get a demo”, “Usage based”, an enterprise conversion pitch — and the dollar figures on the page belong to customer case studies, not to plans. For the enterprise product there is no self-serve price to compare.

That is a legitimate way to sell software. It just means that if you want to know what either will cost you, the answer is a sales call, and the answer will be different for you than for the person next to you.

# Free tiers, measured the same way

Free plans are where most people start, so the same discipline applies. From the same snapshot:

• QR TIGER’s free plan: unlimited static codes, 3 dynamic codes, 500 scans per dynamic code, basic analytics — and the QR TIGER logo shown on the code.
• MostlyQR’s free plan: 3 dynamic codes, 500 scans, editable forever.
• QR Code Generator (Bitly) offers a 14-day free trial rather than a free tier for dynamic codes.

Three dynamic codes is the de facto industry free tier. It is enough to test the workflow and enough for one event. The thing to check before you commit is not the free tier at all — it is the price of the next step up, per code, which is the table above.

# The number to take away

If you are choosing a dynamic QR code tool, do this before you look at any feature list:

1. Count the codes you need to be able to edit after printing. That is your real requirement — a static code you will never change costs nothing, from anyone, forever.
2. Take each vendor’s cheapest plan that covers that number.
3. Divide the monthly price by the codes included.

Then compare the resulting figures. In this table they range from $0.12 to $10.00 for functionally the same thing, and the ranking is not the same as the ranking of the headline monthly prices. That is the whole reason the per-code number is not on anybody’s pricing page.

We publish ours because the arithmetic favours us — and because our comparison pages are only worth reading if the numbers behind them are checkable. If a figure above no longer matches the vendor’s live page, it is out of date rather than wrong, and the date it was true is at the top of this article.